FMBT is the VA's third attempt to modernize its hodgepodge of aging inadequate financial and accounting systems.

Please have them check in.

Do you believe it is sufficient to drive accountability when they look at this contract?

You have already spent 5 years and more than $1 billion to implement the iFAMS system in seven offices.

I, again, still do not understand when you say that they are larger institutions, we have to go through the conversions, we have to go through the startup, how that is going to cost less than the much, much smaller organizations that we…

How is it then that you can tell me that you can sit here in front of this committee and not tell me that this estimate is going to be too low?

It is inexcusable and downright irresponsible for the Department to be managing that much money with an accounting system that is barely functioning.

the complete disregard that the agency has for the opinion of the people that are going to be impacted by it the most.

We urge the BLM to set aside the Proposed Rule in favor of a new, collaborative process with states, local governments, and stakeholders coming to the table.

Do you believe that this rule, would it be enacted, in any way provides more clarity about how the lands can be used, or how they should be managed? Or does it produce more ambiguity and subjectivity?

this contradicts the Taylor Grazing Act, which is law, which prioritizes grazing, food production for our nation?

We watched this Administration time and again try to bypass or get around those laws by passing rules that completely contradict them.

This rule completely contradicts the Taylor Grazing Act and FLPMA.

the BLM trying to expand its powers, an attempt to expand your powers.

And there will be opportunities for questions for the record, Senator Blumenthal.

please, save money, save time, save aggravation for the people across this nation who have to go through that legal process.

And there will be opportunities for questions for the record, Senator Blumenthal.

Dwight Eisenhower said that farming looks very easy when you use a pencil for a plow, and you live 1,000 miles away from a corn field.